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May 29, 2007 · Penguin, May 29, 2007 - Fiction - 496 pages. The authoritative original English version of a beloved classic. One of the world's best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays a family's struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging storm ...
The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel for children that was completed and edited by Johann Rudolf Wyss and published in German as Der schweizerische Robinson (1812–27). The original manuscript of the novel had been written by Wyss’s father, Johann David Wyss, a clergyman, for and with the aid of his four sons. After the initial publication ...
About The Swiss Family Robinson. The authoritative original English version of a beloved classic. One of the world’s best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays a family’s struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging storm, the ...
Mar 1, 2004 · Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818. Title. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island. Credits. Charlie Kirschner, the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team and Richard Tonsing. Language. English. LoC Class. PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures.
Plot Summary. Set in the late 1700s, The Swiss Family Robinson recounts the ten-year adventure of Robinson, his wife Elizabeth, and their four sons, Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz on an uninhabited island in the south Pacific. En route to Australia, the Robinsons’ ship is wrecked in a turbulent storm. The crew escapes in the lifeboats ...
Mar 26, 2023 · The Swiss Family Robinson in English | Fairy Tales in English | Stories for Teenagers | @EnglishFairyTalesParental Guidance: Some material of this video may...
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Rich in action and suspense, The Swiss Family Robinson is an exhilarating novel takes us to a faraway place of danger and beauty, where the courageous Robinson family embarks on a thrilling new life of adventure and discovery. With an Introduction by J. Hillis millerand an Afterword by Elizabeth Janeway.
